I was expecting guests today one of which is vegan. I always bake bread for guests for their breakfast and try to make home-made cake or biscuits for when they arrive but although I’ve made countless vegetarian dishes, vegan cake was a completely new experience for me.

I researched a few recipes and decided to base my recipe on this one that I found on the internet.

Vegan Banana Cake Recipe:

Makes 8-10 small buns or 6-8 large muffins

Ingredients:

150g Self Raising (SR) Flour

1 teaspoon (5g) of baking powder

1/4 teaspoon (1.25g) of salt*

1/2 teaspoon (2.5g) cinnamon

100g demerara sugar

2 tablespoons of light olive oil

2 ripe bananas

2 tablespoons of water

1/2 teaspoon (2.5 ml) of vanilla essence**

Method:

Pre-heat the oven to 170C (350F) and place paper cases into bun/muffin tins.

In one bowl, mix the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt together.

In a second bowl, mash the banana using a knife then mix in the sugar and oil. Add the water and vanilla essence and mix well.

Fold the dry ingredients into the wet ingredients (mine resembled a stiff rather than runny mixture).

Divide the mixture into paper cases.

Place the bun/muffin tins into the pre-heated oven and bake for approx 20-25 mins (small buns) or 35-40 mins (muffins).